This documentary details the life of painter Tobias Schneebaum, who abandoned his cosmopolitan New York lifestyle during the 1950s to live and study with a cannibalistic tribe in Peru. A seemingly mild-mannered elderly Jewish New Yorker, Tobias is actually one of the most fearless adventurers of our

This documentary details the life of painter Tobias Schneebaum, who abandoned his cosmopolitan New York lifestyle during the 1950s to live and study with a cannibalistic tribe in Peru. A seemingly mild-mannered elderly Jewish New Yorker, Tobias is actually one of the most fearless adventurers of our time. On one hand, he is a shy, gay art historian, giving colorful lectures on primitive art and culture to Barnard students and wealthy travellers on cruise ships. On the other, he's a squeamish man who once called on neighbor Norman Mailer to dispose of a dead mouse. Why would such a man venture alone into the jungle to join headhunters and cannibals, become adopted into their tribe, study--and quite willingly participate in--their unique sexual practices, and even go so far as to join them in a meal of human flesh?